Hey Everyone and thank you very much for visiting my thread, hopefully you'll be able to solve my problem.

I Have a "Windows Vista 32bit Home Premium Laptop"
I've had it for quite a while now and I have noticed programs seem to have stop responding!

Example:
I downloaded a Video editing software trial (My friend uses it on his pc) Called "Sony Vegas". You may have heard of this. When I Open it loads and then jumps into "Sony Vegas 9 Is Not Responding" And it basically forces me to close the program!



This also happens on when i try to Save programs, documents, and even notepad has stopped responding! Or when i try to save a file on google sketch up it freezes and i loose all my data.

this is such an annoying problem so if anyone has a solution please note back to me ASAP

Thank you for your time in reading this thread

These are internal breakdowns in an app's mechanisms that cause it to no longer respond to what are called "window messages". If you reckon that it's happening to you so often, and in so many different apps, that there must be a common underlying reason, that points at code which is being injected into multiple apps - something like your anti-virus for example.

If you can readily reproduce some of these "not responding" events, you might want to test what happens when you boot to safe mode (hold F8 during startup) and attempt the same app operations from there. If the same sequence of steps does not lead to unresponsiveness in safe mode, that's significant and a standardised set of troubleshooting steps may help you find the culprit - using MSCONFIG or AutoRuns to selectively disable normal-mode-only componentry until you find the module responsible.

I have tried before in safe mode but the exact same thing happened.
my Anti virus is AVG Free edition
this has been going on for a long time.

Are you able to install programmes or are the actual installers crashing?

Originally Posted by Luciano3167

I have tried before in safe mode but the exact same thing happened.
my Anti virus is AVG Free edition
this has been going on for a long time.

In addition to what Stew2 asked...

Since you can repro this problem easily, that makes it possible to troubleshoot in a relatively painless way. The next time that Sony Vegas (or whatever other app) gets into this standard "not responding" state, try doing this:

- Bring up Task Manager (ctrl+shift+esc)
- On the Applications tab, find the app in question. It's status will presumably be listed as "not responding".
- Rightclick the app, "Create dump file".

A few seconds later, you should see a message saying that a memory dump of the process was created in a specific location. If you can zip up that dump first and then upload it somewhere, I'll gladly take a look. It's stuck and waiting for something - the question is what?

Ok so I just need to open the task manager and then create a dump file then find the location
thanks ill try that now

Yes i can install files, its just certain files don't respond when i try to open them.

OK create a dump file and H2SO4 will read it for you. While your waiting on that click the first link in my sig and do what it says there. That will update your components and reduce compatability errors.

Upload the memory dump somewhere so I can download it at my end and look at it with the aid of a debugger. This site has a 10MB limit on the size of ZIP attachments, so if the size of the dump is less than that when zipped up you should be able to upload it here (go "advanced view" and click the "attachments" paperclip icon). Otherwise, if it's bigger than 10MB, there are loads of other sites on the internet which will allow you to upload a large file and then send a link to others - this one for example: RapidShare: Easy Filehosting

The first link in my sig is Performance Updates

You need debugging software to read the dump file but if you zip it using Winzip or 7zip then upload it here im sure H2SO4 will look at it for you and post the results.